koestner355 posts11-12-2020 5:32amSo, it seems that this is the majority opinion: silver is bright, gold is warm and copper soft. Are they describing the sound, or the color of the wire? I don’t get it. Is it as simple as imagining the sound in your mind while thinking of the wires color, or is this just a coincidence?
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Close if you can hear the difference, BUT copper is warm not SOFT.
Gold will soften the tone on copper and silver. GOLD really adds a signature to a silver wire that is gold clad, with either pure silver ends, or pure copper. VERY expensive wire, pure NASA spec..
Now take copper ends and dip the end in a crucible of 99. silver. It will do something different again. You have to connect with screws, if you don’t and SOLDER them, the 4% silver will change the sound AGAIN...
ADD a SC .011 of straight tungsten (99.91) and change it all AGAIN.. Mids open up, Highs will stay, where is the copper? (inside the silver). Yes they do work VERY well.. If YOU listen.. There are folks the can Articulate the sound much better than me. I try to explain without contradiction, but with MY explanation, and experience. It’s pretty common because, I’m a common man, nothing to polished or refined here.. I do wear shoes though..
Pure silver say 99.9 mill spec #12 LOW stand count, not high, and teflon cover, then a poly-vinyl. A slow 1 inch twist Clockwise.. THAT wire will not sound anything like what it will sound like for more than 400 hours, more usually. It really doesn’t like the floor either... a #10 or 8 in silver could take 1000 hours. It is one of the worst if you go moving it around to. It takes a day sometimes to settle back in from a de coupling. If it’s windy forget it.. A day..with no terminal ends and graphene paint.
That wire takes at least 5-6 days on a cooker to just get it to 1/2 that break in time.. YES cookers help to change the way a cable breaks in, and CAN freshen one up.. Not wise to change directions either, listen first, THEN pick the direction and cook, the cable. add your arrows, (they should already be on the cable). HANDLE with extreme care and ASB the cable and tape the ends..
Discharge first THEN work to add new cables.. or work on cables..
Copper, LOL drop it on the floor, good to go. UNTIL you tinker a bit.
As far a Mr Nelson Pass, let me ask him on his, First Watt site. He might answer. I’ve never asked him about his credentials, but I sure have about how to build a device to match components for his amps.. Very nice person..
From 25+ years ago.. until recent. I had a question on a B5 crossover of his, he will answer the question.. That was 2 years ago.. James B (Ampzilla) RIP.. No more answers there... Dennis H of Cary. He uses silver wire as an upgrade.. LOL
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